It is a struggle when we hear so many stories that we have a zero tolerance policy, yet these stories continue to rise up still.

The effective communication part of that, obviously, that becomes a big issue.

So that is not only just, obviously, your requirement, that is if you are going to be on that base especially, that is their requirement as well.

Because that is where, obviously, this begins.

Are any of you ready to go on record right now and to say there is no one in State Department or in DOD, that says there is currently no one that is being trafficked right now?

We have to move passed they have their passport; they could leave if they want to.

We have tremendous honor and respect for the work that is done by DOD and the State Department.

I hear many people say that our country has never been more at odds and our rhetoric more divisive than now. I would strongly disagree. I would remind us of a time in 1861 when our Nation stood at the precipice of the Civil War and the…

I am just stunned at this testimony, I mean, stunned, that in the name of the American people these practices have been allowed...

A zero tolerance policy is not working. Failing to prosecute is not working. Cure letters are not working.

My concern is that if I went back 35 years ago, Congress was conducting hearings and conversations about pushing power generation out of natural gas into coal and into nuclear because we were 'running out' of natural gas.

If we're going to make a major decision that is going affect billions of dollars and it's going to affect future planning, we better make it right.

I appreciate your being calm and deliberative in explaining what your goal is.

There has not been enough time to able to go through this.

this is a national issue on all that is happening

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